Halt means: To limp; move with a limping gait. Related words include stop or arrest. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Halt in practice.
Halt in a sentence
Related words
Halt meaning
- To limp; move with a limping gait.
- To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
- To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
Example sentences (20)
And third, what would be so awful about our too-big, too-profligate government grinding to a halt for a week or so?
His first year in Cincinnati came to a halt with a season-ending injury, however, from which he is still recovering.
Along with countless refugee and human rights groupsred flags about the plan and welcome the decision to halt it.
A balance has to be found between trusting and scepticism, otherwise life would grind to a halt amid futile arguments.
A similar failure occurred in the backup function, which led to a halt of operations at its factories, it said.
And Hawaii Gov. Josh Green warns it could be “catastrophic” if tourism on the island came to a halt right now.
But hostilities have been brought – temporarily at least – to a halt mediated by the local Russian “peacekeeping” force.
He understood that he could bring the entire galaxy to a halt by using the politicians and their policies to do nothing.
A yellow weather warning is in place as gusts of up to 65mph hit the county - with some train services brought to a halt.
However this came to an abrupt halt after three “significant events” happened in quick and lead to a dramatic turnaround.
He said even when interest rate rises halt it doesn't mean the property market will start moving into another growth phase.
Boss Tim Steiner said that now was the right time to halt operations at Hatfield and consider "future options for the site".
A saracen armoured car screeched to a halt near him and more soldiers tumbled out through the clanking doors at its rear end.
Candidates shared plans to target out-of-state property owners and halt their efforts to purchase more buildings in the city.
Commuters walking through the damaged road still make a brief halt at the accident spot to offer prayers.
If the strike continues, TV and movie production across California and the East Coast are likely to halt.
If untreated, her condition will deteriorate but Michelle hopes that a new drug will halt the progress of this deterioration.
Amid a production halt during a double strike, major talent agency CAA is undergoing a round of layoffs.
In March 2013 the site was bought by Charteroak and renamed Southern Halt - now home to a collection of eco-friendly log cabins.
It is the screeching to a halt that is done in a way to prevent the man from crossing to the other side of cloud nine, you know.
Common combinations with halt
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to halt 116×
- halt the 41×
- halt to 13×
- halt in 8×
- halt and 8×
- halt on 7×
- halt at 6×
- halt their 6×
- halt all 5×
- would halt 5×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word halt. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.